How Amazon Gave The Tech Community An Early Christmas Gift

I didn't want to post this until the sale was over, which it now seems to be... guess it was only good for Christmas or enough people caught on.

Basically the $200 unlocked Amazon Fire phone was a very nice gift to us techies and anyone that have dabbled in tinkering with their phones.

After a couple of fairly simple software changes, you could've gotten a phone that performs just as well or if not better than the $600 crap Samsung and other (less crappy) devices makers build.

For a regular user, it could even be on par with the OnePlus, because let's face it, how many want such a large screen or need SuperUser permissions?

The key is enable the install of third-party apps which is found in Settings somewhere. Something to the sound of "enable applications from unknown sources".

Then, install Google Services and the Play Store.

Download the APKs here and install them in the below order, Restart the device after each install

http://www.epubor.com/how-to-install-google-play-on-kindle-fire.html

• Google Service Framework
• Google Login Service
• Play Service
• Google Play Store

If all goes well, the first time you open the Store, it will ask you to login to... Google!

After that you can install all your Google apps and Chromecast even works too!

Also, now you can download the launcher of your choice. For a more authentic Android experience, I recommend Nova or Google Now.

Voila! You now have a $300-600 phone for $200. And if Prime has any value to you, even less!

Warning: It is possible that this will not work with Fire OS higher than 3.6.8 and Amazon could cripple the Google apps with an update but I think that would put it into legal hot waters.

And now since developers have the phone at such a cheap price, more attention is going into rooting and modding it so in the future, the Fire Phone may even run a non-Amazon operating system.